Michael Storm

Friends, Michael Storm is a pseudonym. Silly perhaps, but I'll come to the reason for using this one in a minute. I'm a musician at heart, a drummer. While rock drummers don't spring to mind as purveyors of prime intellectual property, yours truly took a stab at cracking the preconception. By writing. Initially for the screen. If seeing one's property turned into animated and live-action images is great, then projecting images onto the screen of a reader's mind must be beyond words. Thus, the next step was to write a book. However, the task of assembling all those thousands of words - scripts, by contrast, retain a luxurious amount of white space - was daunting.

The required boldness followed a personal discovery. Now to this matter of Michael Storm. I found out that my grandfather and my great-grandfather were writers - and both of them used the pen name Michael Storm. They wrote stories for several so-called storypapers, that pulpy literary phenomenon of the late 19th early 20th centuries. Indulge me here, when I mention the classic fictional Victorian sleuth Sexton Blake. One of his famous nemeses, George Marsden Plummer, was an invention of my great-grandfather's.

Michael Storm. How could I not?

Sincerely yours... well, Michael Storm.